Snowmaking at Hunter Mountain Hunter New York

Here's what the skiers don't see. This was taken before everthing

was shut down for skiing. The mountain was in total fog. Temp was

-02 deg f. Taken into the rising sun.

I like the basic image, but I don't like the hose or the faintly visible snowmaking machine.

I'll have to disagree entirely with previous post. Leaving in the hose but obscurring the actual snow-making machine took a bit of thought and positioning (to get the sun behind the "haze" just right) and creates an interesting composition. The hose leads the eye to where the snow-blower "is" and thus leaves us to wonder what is back there making all this ruckus. This is a "noisy" photo, but in a good way -- you can almost hear roaring engine of the darn thing as it blows snow everywhere. The mood is just right.

Wires or tubes take away, imo.

Hard to shoot these. The effects are nice. The brightness on the right is a little much but so what??

too bad the cable is there

i think the picture could be cropped a bit - a half of an inch from each side ...